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one of the pushers of that effort is senator tom udall deocrat of new mexi. one of those opposed is senator lamar alexander of tennessee a member of the senate republican leadership. senator udall, what is wrong with filibusters now that needs to be fixed? >> well, jim, i think the first place to start is what's wrong with the senate. and what worries me the most is last year we didn't do a budget. we didn't do a single appropriations bill. we did only one authorization so we're not doing the oversight of the agencies themselves. 400 bills were sent over from the house of representatives on many important subjects. we didn't deal with them at all. and all of that was the result, i believe, of kind of a constant filibuster. >> lehrer: do you agree with that? >> no, i don't agree with that, jim. here's what happens. senator reed, the majority leader, brings up the health care law. i go down and say i'd like to amend it. more than the last six majority leaders put together he says no, lamar, you can't. i object. he calls that a filibuster. i call that keeping me
one of the pushers of that effort is senator tom udall deocrat of new mexi. one of those opposed is senator lamar alexander of tennessee a member of the senate republican leadership. senator udall, what is wrong with filibusters now that needs to be fixed? >> well, jim, i think the first place to start is what's wrong with the senate. and what worries me the most is last year we didn't do a budget. we didn't do a single appropriations bill. we did only one authorization so we're not doing...
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he is now shaking hands with tom coburn, senator coburn of oklahoma. now, of course, the big deal here... there is secretary clinton laughing with secretary gates and secretary geithner. there on the right is senator sessions. my guess is they're laughing about the idea that they've got all... many of these members of the house and senate have dates more or less tonight. they've gone with this idea of in the old days up until tonight big sessions of congress like this, all the democrats sat together. all the republicans sat together. but they decided at the suggestion of senator come udall, democrat, to... mark udall. tom is the guy who is working to fix the filibusters and mark udall his cousin is the man who suggested this... that everybody sit with another member of his or her party. there is secretary sebelius. secretary donovan. helping me all evening are shields and gerson that's sind i caned columnist mark shields and "washington post" columnist michael gerson. there we just saw the supreme court. a quick shot of the supreme court. i haven't had
he is now shaking hands with tom coburn, senator coburn of oklahoma. now, of course, the big deal here... there is secretary clinton laughing with secretary gates and secretary geithner. there on the right is senator sessions. my guess is they're laughing about the idea that they've got all... many of these members of the house and senate have dates more or less tonight. they've gone with this idea of in the old days up until tonight big sessions of congress like this, all the democrats sat...
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. >> suarez: plus tom bearden returns to the gulf where scientists are searching for lessons learned from damage done to fish. >> it's possible that what we could do is be able to give some information back to the people who are deciding about the way to deal with oil spills as to what the best approach might be. >> brown: we wrap up a week of encore reports on the foreclosure crisis from paul solman with a look at winners and losers when mortgages are modified. >> suarez: e.j. dionne and michael gerson offer their end of the year analysis filling in for mark shields and david brooks. >> brown: from minnesota, fred de sam lazaro tells the story of one monastery's mission to preserve sacred religious texts. >> if you believe that we can learn from the past, the past of our lives, the past of our families and our own nation or culture, the only way the past has come down to us is in the form of these writings. >> suarez: plus, we profile idaho-based poet karena youtz. >> brown: that's all ahead. on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> auto c
. >> suarez: plus tom bearden returns to the gulf where scientists are searching for lessons learned from damage done to fish. >> it's possible that what we could do is be able to give some information back to the people who are deciding about the way to deal with oil spills as to what the best approach might be. >> brown: we wrap up a week of encore reports on the foreclosure crisis from paul solman with a look at winners and losers when mortgages are modified. >>...
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house, tom delay, now faces three years in a texas prison. the houston republican was sentenced today in state court. he'd been convicted of money laundering to funnel corporate funds to republicans running for the state legislature. delay said in court today he still does not believe he broke any law. he'll remain free, pending his appeal. wall street struggled to make any headway today. the dow jones industrial average lost 37 points to close at 11,637. the nasdaq rose four points to close above 2707. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to gwen. >> ifill: finally tonight, the making of a new nation. as residents of southern sudan vote on a referendum to secede from the north, dozens have been killed in violence along the border separating the two regions. but in the southern capital, juba, there is only celebration. fred de sam lazaro has been covering the story for us. ray suarez talked with him earlier today. >> suarez: fred, you're in what may be the capital of a new country some day. what's the atmosphere been like in j
house, tom delay, now faces three years in a texas prison. the houston republican was sentenced today in state court. he'd been convicted of money laundering to funnel corporate funds to republicans running for the state legislature. delay said in court today he still does not believe he broke any law. he'll remain free, pending his appeal. wall street struggled to make any headway today. the dow jones industrial average lost 37 points to close at 11,637. the nasdaq rose four points to close...
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that's in our interest and i couldn't agree more with tom. but how you get there is very difficult. >> brown: so what would you advise the president at this snint >> i think we need to encourage the government of egypt to make the changes that are necessary because the government of egypt is there. if that is not satisfactory, they'll have to adjust their policy. >> brown: but you mean not speak to the demonstrators and not interact with the opposition? >> no, i think we need to be sympathetic to the demonstrators' goals. and clearly that's necessary. but we also have to understand that at this point only the government of egypt can make the changes and that we should encourage them do so. >> brown: sifrn thet i can but it sounds like you say we should be doing more in terms of speaking... lending support to the opposition. >> well, i don't mean lending concrete support for overthrowing mubarak, for example. it's not our business who holds egypt. but we do have a stake in how egypt is ruled and i don't think we have that much more time for th
that's in our interest and i couldn't agree more with tom. but how you get there is very difficult. >> brown: so what would you advise the president at this snint >> i think we need to encourage the government of egypt to make the changes that are necessary because the government of egypt is there. if that is not satisfactory, they'll have to adjust their policy. >> brown: but you mean not speak to the demonstrators and not interact with the opposition? >> no, i think we...
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when you hear in tom bearden's piece people saying that they are hoping for healing this from this public memorial, is that an experience you're familiar with? did that happen in oklahoma city as well? >> it did. president clinton was here just a few days after the event, has been here five or six times over the last 15 years. i think when he came it didn't matter if he was a republican or a democrat, it mattered that he was the president and that he came to offer healing, to understand the depth of the grief that we were going through here. and really his visit began to start healing process. people will not be healed tonight. they're not going to be over it tonight. but it's a process that shows the people of arizona that the nation's arms are around them and that together we'll get through this. >> ifill: mr. deangelis, in the years since the columbine massacre, did that kind of communal public grief did that healing take? did it work? did it help people? >> yes, it did. it just showed that we had the support of the world, that we were not in this alone. and when vice president gore di
when you hear in tom bearden's piece people saying that they are hoping for healing this from this public memorial, is that an experience you're familiar with? did that happen in oklahoma city as well? >> it did. president clinton was here just a few days after the event, has been here five or six times over the last 15 years. i think when he came it didn't matter if he was a republican or a democrat, it mattered that he was the president and that he came to offer healing, to understand...
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newshour correspondent tom hall hall arizona allows any law-abiding foreign carry a handgun. no permits are needed to carry a weapon concealed or out in the open. there are no restrictions on sales of large clips of ammunition and this week the state legislature will debate a measure to allow guns on college campuses. for a closer look now at how arizona's gun laws compare to the rest of the country we are joined by james cavanaugh, he recently retired as a special agent in charge for the federal bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives last year, after 33 years of service. mr. cavanaugh, thank you for talking with us. before i ask you about how arizona's laws compare, give us a rough picture of what laws are like across the country. we know there's a second amendment that protects people's right to bear arms but beyond that what is the federal law? >> well, you know, the federal law is founded mostly in the gun control act of 1968, judy, which came in to being right after the three horrible assassinations of the '60s-- president kennedy, senator robert kennedy wh
newshour correspondent tom hall hall arizona allows any law-abiding foreign carry a handgun. no permits are needed to carry a weapon concealed or out in the open. there are no restrictions on sales of large clips of ammunition and this week the state legislature will debate a measure to allow guns on college campuses. for a closer look now at how arizona's gun laws compare to the rest of the country we are joined by james cavanaugh, he recently retired as a special agent in charge for the...
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. >> woodruff: then, tom bearden gets reaction in tucson to last night's call for national healing and a new era in civility. >> thousands of people from all sides of the political spectrum turned out to hear president obama's message of reconciliation. >> suarez: congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz talks about the moment her friend representative gabrielle giffords opened her eyes in a tucson hospital yesterday. >> woodruff: and we get a broader reaction to the president's speech with reporters from public broadcasting stations in new york, ohio, california, and oklahoma. >> suarez: plus, jeffrey brown, just back from haiti, details the growing frustration over the slow pace of reconstruction a year after the devastating earthquake. >> one year after the earthquake this is the larger reality for so many of the people. tent camp on what was once the city's soccer stadium. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> okay, listen. somebody has got to get serious. >> i think... >> we need renewable energy. >> ...ren
. >> woodruff: then, tom bearden gets reaction in tucson to last night's call for national healing and a new era in civility. >> thousands of people from all sides of the political spectrum turned out to hear president obama's message of reconciliation. >> suarez: congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz talks about the moment her friend representative gabrielle giffords opened her eyes in a tucson hospital yesterday. >> woodruff: and we get a broader reaction to the...
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water service, this is an area where we would expect to see dangerous levels of transmissi >> lehrer: tom bearden, in tucson, reports on how the shooting survivors are coping, including staff members of congresswoman gabrielle giffords. >> nearly a week after the shooting representative gifford's constituents are still coming by her office to show their support. >> brown: and mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> for three hours a week, i'm a coach, but when i was diagnosed with prostate cancer, i needed a coach. our doctor was great, but with so many tough decisions, i felt lost. united healthcare offered a specially trained r.n., who helped us weigh and understand all our options. for me, cancer was as scary as a fastball is to some of these kids, but my coach had hit that pitch before. >> turning data into useful answers. we're 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. united healthcare. >> bnsf railway. >> the william and f
water service, this is an area where we would expect to see dangerous levels of transmissi >> lehrer: tom bearden, in tucson, reports on how the shooting survivors are coping, including staff members of congresswoman gabrielle giffords. >> nearly a week after the shooting representative gifford's constituents are still coming by her office to show their support. >> brown: and mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's...
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based upon his overtures toward tom donahue and chamber of commerce and jeffrey immelt and the fortune 50. i think there is a perception that he has made things work since the election. he did get start through. he did get don't ask don't tell through. he didn't appear to be rolled by the republicans in any way. and he was, he did act in a bipartisan way and finally, at tucson and in the american tragedy, he did, he was the president not only comforting people but connecting emotionally with them. >> lehrer: dow buy into that. >> tucson was a major part of it, obviously. i do think healing the war which really was a war is a part of it too. a lot of people work for businesses. and respect business. >> even a rhetorical war. >> it was a rhetorical war and the business leaders would say it was more than that when they were being hit with regulations and all the uncertainty. and there has been a shift, some of it is so far just symbolic but there has been a shift in personnel. gene sperling and bruce reed and bill daly, they have come in or been promoted and they're not necessarily busine
based upon his overtures toward tom donahue and chamber of commerce and jeffrey immelt and the fortune 50. i think there is a perception that he has made things work since the election. he did get start through. he did get don't ask don't tell through. he didn't appear to be rolled by the republicans in any way. and he was, he did act in a bipartisan way and finally, at tucson and in the american tragedy, he did, he was the president not only comforting people but connecting emotionally with...